This volume examines the aesthetic and performative dimensions of Alevi cultural heritage from past to present, in an interdisciplinary framework and using a wide range of approaches. The chapters analyse traditional, contemporary and transnational developments of Alevi cultural expression including [...]

englischThis volume elucidates the changing relationship between heroization and othering in a German-Chinese cultural comparison. Intercultural case studies illustrate which representatives of German culture and history were subjected to a process of heroization or were disparaged as negative [...]

englischThis book is the first to publish and annotate three letters written in Arabic by the Coptic Pope, Mark VII (†️1769). They are part of a series of correspondence between Mark VII and the Moravian Church, which was active in Egypt between 1752 and 1783. The author presents the background to [...]

englischHeroic spirit and heroic action can be connected in many ways – when intellect and heroism compete, when poet and ruler complement each other or when spirit and act are synthesized to form one heroic character. Drawing on recent concepts of heroism and agency, this volume brings together [...]

englischIs there such a thing as "Islamic" feminism? What does gender and gender justice mean in Islam? In a series of essays, this volume examines theoretical questions, studies, issues and controversial topics that are intensely debated when it comes to concepts of gender, gender justice and [...]

englischHow to become an artist and remain it a lifetime? Matthias Koeppel dedicated his life to be a painter and a writer of lyrics. He developed himself to a narrative artist, who picked up the alienation effect to point out to social drawbacks in a humorously way. Coming from

abstract painting, [...]

englischFor the first time the study analyses comprehensively early modern cattle trade and points out the connection between economy and rule. The transfers provoked by environmental differences and seasonal cycles of usage were transacted particularly by jewish traders. Periodically lean oxes from [...]

englischThis book attends to three outlaw heroes from England, Germany, and North America. Robin Hood, Klaus Stoertebeker, and Jesse James still fascinate people today. The myth of the outlaw expresses social discourses about law and justice, government and resistance, and sovereignty and [...]